A Comparison of Databases, Statistics Packages, and APIs in Analytics Systems

1.) Compare a traditional database with an analytical database and a NoSQL database.
2.) Compare THREE examples; each should be drawn from one of the following areas below:
a.) Databases (a traditional database, an analytical database, NoSQL database)
b.) Statistics Packages (such as SPSS, SAS, R, MiniTab, and MATLAB)
c.) API (including WEKA, Orange, Statistica, and Hadoop)
Describe your selected database, statistics package, and API or development environment and discuss how they are related and how each is used as part of an overall analytics system.